red & jon - SOS (stuck on stupid)

Sadly he is just getting started.

I will be in Vegas Feb 17-20...... I've gotta dream.

Happy New Year

A good post Thomas.

OFU "...it is the way people use a word that defines a word."

Thomas,

As always, an excellent post.

Although, I do take exception to one assertion. "...soon declines to a “demand for other people’s money” – at the point of a gun in the streets. That is human nature."

I submit to you that "human nature" may be distined to sin. But, the criminal lawlessness and all out evil traits you speak of are culturally specific, not natural.

Congratulations and best wishes.

Well, er... what was I thinkin'?

thanks OFG

"They are attempting to raid the national treasury!"

Thank you for your kind words. However, what they did to us obviously never was a concern. What they did was unconstitutional, not unlike most things done by congress anymore. They did what they did for themselves and their own self-serving purposes. Most, as always, sold their vote to the highest bidders, some voted as they did to help spread enough manure so their tracks might be covered. While a precious few stood by and essentially cowered after convincing themselves they shall live to fight another day.

As for raiding our treasury... there is none. Emptied long ago.

Now, they are taking your liberty and freedom.

Under Bill Clinton, the entire federal government put massive pressure on banks to grant more mortgages to the poor and minorities. Clinton’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Andrew Cuomo, investigated Fannie Mae for racial discrimination and proposed that 50 percent of Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s portfolio be made up of loans to low- to moderate-income borrowers by the year 2001. Instead of looking at ‘outdated criteria,’ such as the mortgage applicant’s credit history and ability to make a down payment, banks were encouraged to consider nontraditional measures of credit-worthiness, such as having a good jump shot or having a missing child named ‘Caylee.’ Threatening lawsuits, Clinton’s Federal Reserve demanded that banks treat welfare payments and unemployment benefits as valid income sources to qualify for a mortgage. That isn’t a joke—it’s a fact. ... In 1999, liberals were bragging about extending affirmative action to the financial sector. Los Angeles Times reporter Ron Brownstein hailed the Clinton administration’s affirmative action lending policies as one of the ‘hidden success stories’ of the Clinton administration, saying that ‘black and Latino homeownership has surged to the highest level ever recorded.’ Meanwhile, economists were screaming from the rooftops that the Democrats were forcing mortgage lenders to issue loans that would fail the moment the housing market slowed and deadbeat borrowers couldn’t get out of their loans by selling their houses. A decade later, the housing bubble burst and, as predicted, food-stamp-backed mortgages collapsed. Democrats set an affirmative action time-bomb and now it’s gone off.